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    "id": 1155490,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1155490/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I thank Hon. Osotsi and the Majority Whip for the remarks they have made. For the Hansard, we need to be clear. Kenya is a multiparty democracy. All efforts should be made to make sure that political parties work. Being an independent candidate is an exception rather than the rule. So, the exception cannot be the rule. However, we have said that it is not laws that make things. The IEBC should not be looking at legislation to be making things. There are a lot of non-legislative interventions that need to be put in place that can cure those mischiefs instead of a legislation like this which looks draconian and wants to bar people from moving elsewhere. For example, let them give more money to political parties, allow political parties to be trained, let people enjoy what it is in a political party and allow those people who Sankok is referring to, to be made to understand that a political party is a place where we exercise our rights. When that is done, people would want to participate in political parties without a law such as the one we are making. We cannot say that we are going that direction because we want to have everybody coming in as an independent Member. Independent, that is not what the Constitution demands of us. Thank you, Mr. Chair."
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